Ed Kupfer, whose day job is as an advanced stats guru for the Houston Rockets, had some fun with ESPN’s projected records for teams for this upcoming season and created a strength of schedule graph

This is all based on ESPN's projections however. But it does make sense that the East is weaker than the West in most aspects. Being that Rose is out and Dwight is out of the conference too, so it should be a lot easier for the Heat to take the east this year.

wow. crazy coincidence that the lakers, heat and thunder all have the easiest schedules in their conferences

easiest to hard, Miami, Indiana,Brooklyn,Boston,Chicago,Detroit,Atlanta,Ph illy,Toronto, New York, and then the Lakers.
10 easier schedules according to the graph. Good place for them to fine tune the new roster.